[ltp] Wireless PCMCIA cards?

[Michael Perry]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:11:08 +0000, Alan Scruton Glasby
<asg@theideasforge.org> wrote:
> Greetings!  Before going totally cross-eyed in my quest to find a
> wireless card so that I can use my router and etc on ADSL does
> anyone  know (a) of a card that works and (b) where to get the thing?
> And yes,I *do* pore over the exellent sourceforge net and *linmodems*.
> Suspect thet root of problem is that all the possible suppliers within
> 20-miles radius kmow only the products of the Sage of Seattle.
> asg
> 
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You could always go with the Orinoco Classic Gold cards. I've had them
working for a long time with Linux.  They do 802.11b very well and I
have had them working with a variety of routers including a Linksys
WRT54G, a Netgear, and a Lucent/Orinoco AP200.  I also have been using
the linuxant drivers which allow windows-only 54G wireless card like
the WPC54G to work with a variety of Linux distributions.  They are at
www.linuxant.com.  You could also use the ndiswrapper at
ndiswrapper.sf.net (I think).

I use Debian Unstable here so all I have to do is add the
wireless-tools package and get a kernel with orinoco support.

I think you should be able to also find cards based on the atheros
chipset and use the madwifi drivers and there are probably a group of
yet other cards that work very well thta others can tell you about.


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Michael Perry
meperry@gmail.com